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Sunday, 19 July 2015

Family Of Chattanooga Shooter Says He Suffered From Depression.

Mohammod Yousuf Abdulazeez, identified as the gunman who killed
five service members at Chattanooga military facilities last week, was
suffering from depression, his family says in a statement expressing
their "shock, horror, and grief" at the shooting rampage that killed
five servicemen.
The statement comes as investigators are
reportedly stepping up their investigation into what motivated
Abdulazeez, a graduate in engineering from the University of Tennessee,
to open fire Thursday on a recruiting center and the Navy Operational
Support Center in Chattanooga, Tenn.
"There are no words to
describe our shock, horror, and grief," the family wrote. "The person
who committed this horrible crime was not the son we knew and loved."
"For
many years, our son suffered from depression. It grieves us beyond
belief to know that his pain found its expression in this heinous act of
violence," the statement, released by a family representative, said.
Meanwhile, The New York Times reports
that authorities are looking into a text message that Abdulazeez
reportedly sent to a friend hours before the attack in which he quoted
an Islamic verse: "Whoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have
declared war against him."
The Times writes:

"At
the same time, the bureau is expanding its investigation into a trip
the gunman, identified as Mohammod Abdulazeez, made to Jordan in 2014,
by dispatching agents to the country to interview Jordanian officials
about the gunman's contacts, the law enforcement official said.
"'All
indications from the interviews is that there is something different
about him after he returned home,' the official said. 'He was different,
but it does not appear that he was showing the typical outward signs of
someone who was going to lash out violently. It does not appear from
the interviews that he was saying a lot of anti-U.S. things to his
friends.'"